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    Ladyzhenskaya, Olga Alexandrovna

    (b. Kologriv, U.S.S.R., 7 March 1922; d. St. Petersburg, Russia, 12 January 2004),

    mathematics, partial differential equations.

    Ladyzhenskaya was one of the very few outstanding female mathematicians of the twentieth century. The general theory of partial differential equations, governing fluids, gases, elasticity, electromagnetism, and quantum physics was developed during the twentieth century. Ladyzhenskaya was a major figure in the treatment of parabolic (typified by ut – uxx= 0) and elliptic (uxx + uyy = 0) equations. She obtained pioneering results in the spectral theory of general elliptic operators and in diffraction. With her student, Nina Ural’tseva, she analyzed in depth the regularity of quasilinear elliptic equations and with Ural’tseva and Vsevolod A. Solonnikov, the regularity of parabolic equations.

    Life and Career . Ladyzhenskaya grew up in Kologriv in European Russia, where her father was the high school principa

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    Olga Alexandrovna Ladyzhenskaya was born in Kologriv, Russia on March 7, 1922. Her father was a mathematics teacher who kindled her interest in mathematics by teaching her the basics of Euclidean geometry when she was 8 years old.  In October 1937, Olga’s father was arrested bygd Stalinist authorities, sent to a torture chamber and executed without a trial–a fate shared bygd many of the Russian elit. Since her father had been declared an “enemy of the state,” Olga had a long struggle gaining entry to Moscow State University, but eventually was able to complete her undergraduate degree at that university in 1947. 

    Two years later, she defended her doctoral dissertation using finite differences methods for solving systems of partial differential equations. In 1954, she became a researcher at the prestigious Steklov Mathematical Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, where she researched the equations of elasticity, the Schrödinger equation, and the Navier

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    Olga Alexandrovna Ladyzhenskaya

    Biography

    Olga Alexandrovna Ladyzhenskaya's father was Aleksandr Ivanovich Ladyzhenskii, descended from Russian nobility, and her mother, Anna Mikhailovna, was from Estonia. Olga's birth place Kologriv was surrounded by 'wild' forests, near the picturesque river Unzha. Her mother was a hard-working housewife, looking after her husband and three daughters of whom Olga was the youngest. She was the closest to her father who was a mathematics teacher and the catalyst for Olga's life long interest in mathematics. He started teaching his daughters mathematics in the summer of 1930 beginning with giving explanations of the basic notions of geometry, then he formulated a theorem and in turn made his daughters prove it. It became apparent that Olga showed a strong talent for logical thinking from an early age. Not only did she love to discuss mathematics with her father but she also studied calculus with him as an equal. Olga's grandfather, Gennady
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